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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Growing Up: Here and There, D-Day and All That, and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of the marines in the Guadalcanal campaign were under twenty-one years of age?
(a) Eighty percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Twenty percent.
(d) One hundred percent.

2. What did soldiers on troop ships understand about their destination, according to General William Buster?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Only where they were landing.
(c) Only where they would spend the first few weeks after landing.
(d) Only what their mission would be upon landing.

3. How did the people of Pasadena react to the sight of wounded veterans?
(a) With gifts and offers of help.
(b) With requests to keep them off the streets.
(c) With visits to the VA hospitals.
(d) With parades in their honor.

4. What did Ted Allenby promise the homosexual soldiers in his chaplaincy?
(a) "I will guarantee your veteran's benefits."
(b) "I will pave the way for you to stay in the military."
(c) "I will fight for your civil rights."
(d) "I will pave the way for you to get out of the military."

5. When did German teenagers in the Luftwaffe study for the flak brigade?
(a) From 2:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
(b) From 2:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
(c) From 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
(d) From 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a dogfight?

2. What black market item was in demand among Russian troops in Vienna in 1945?

3. How did Ursula Bender feel about the war as a six-year-old child?

4. After the war, how did the community in Long Beach change, according to Sheril Cunning?

5. How did the Japanese people feel about the Japanese war veterans?

(see the answer key)

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